File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0302, message 410


Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:12:01 -0600
From: Sandi and Scott Spaeth <vespass-AT-swbell.net>
Subject: Re: whoa, I'm behind the times/push button workers...


At 01:23 AM 2/21/03 +0100, Joacim Persson wrote:

>Compare what you can buy for the payment for that job, with the work
>required to produce the same goods by hand, from scratch.
>
>Imagine filing out a car motor from a block of steel, not to mention
>melting the ore to get the steel, or getting the ore out from the ground.
>By muscle work.

I'm not understanding your point maybe.    Physical labor is still physical 
labor.  The emphasis has changed from strength to dexterity and speed, I 
admit that.   But the factories I have seen (and I'm on my third) are not 
filled with chairs in front of buttons.

cheers,
scott

   

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